Hello; I have a couple of FC1 systems. One is all scsi (AHA2940UW), FC1 runs fine on it. I also have 3 huge Seagate 5" full height 47GB drives. I have them in an external tower that has its own power supply. They are set up as ext3 single partition drives for storage. My motherboard is a Rioworks PDVIA with dual 68-pin scsi. I dont need the scsi tower most of the time as it used for backup and general storage. It is also large and noisy. Ok the problem is that when I turn off the tower the system hangs during /etc/fstab. If I comment the drives out it boots fine. /dev/sdb1 /mnt/scsi-ext-top ext3 noauto 1 2 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/scsi-ext-mid ext3 noauto 1 2 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/scsi-ext-bot ext3 noauto 1 2 How do I leave the drives in /etc/fstab and not have them powered up? These are the only drives on that controller. Thanks Mick M. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/